kernels

[NoOp]

On 04/28/2011 12:19 PM, Verde Denim wrote:
> I happened to be looking through my test box running 11 this morning, and
> got curious about the structure of /boot and grub.
> In looking at my 10.10 laptop, I noticed that I currently have 7 kernel
> images there, which include a set of files prefixed with abi-<release>. I've
> not seen these before and don't know why they are there.
> I then looked in the grub directory and, somewhat to my surprise, could find
> no place to edit the grub menu.
> 
> I know things have changed somewhat, so I looked in synaptic to see if all
> of those kernels were marked as 'installed' and, sure enough, they are.
> (there is also a kernel there that is one version ahead of the one I
> currently have, but the updater has not flagged it as an upgrade as of yet).
> 
> Is the preferred method of clearing up the grub menu and associated kernel
> images to use synaptic and 'mark for removal' ?
> 
> I'm currently running 2.6.32-31-generic on my laptop, and want to save 30
> and 31, but remove clean up the rest.

You are *way* behind... 10.10:

$ ls /boot
abi-2.6.35-26-generic         memtest86+.bin
abi-2.6.35-27-generic         memtest86+_multiboot.bin
abi-2.6.35-28-generic         System.map-2.6.35-26-generic
abi-2.6.35-29-generic         System.map-2.6.35-27-generic
config-2.6.35-26-generic      System.map-2.6.35-28-generic
config-2.6.35-27-generic      System.map-2.6.35-29-generic
config-2.6.35-28-generic      vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-26-generic
config-2.6.35-29-generic      vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-27-generic
grub                          vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-28-generic
grub.old                      vmcoreinfo-2.6.35-29-generic
initrd.img-2.6.35-26-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.35-26-generic
initrd.img-2.6.35-27-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.35-27-generic
initrd.img-2.6.35-28-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.35-28-generic
initrd.img-2.6.35-29-generic  vmlinuz-2.6.35-29-generic

When was the last time you did an update on that laptop?